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WM. SLADE, 0F GUM CREEK, GEORGIA.

BUCKLE FOR WEARINGr-APPAREL.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 15,671, dated September 2, 1856.

To all Lo/wm t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM SLADE, of Gum Creek, in the county of Dooly and State of Georgia, have invented a new and Improved Buckle l/Vhich May be Readily Transferred from one Garment to Another; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and eXact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying-drawings, `making a part of this specification, Figure l being a top View of my improved buckle; Fig. 2, a section of the same in the line fr, fr, of Fig. l; Fig. 3, a top View of the buckle, the construction being slightly different from that represent-ed in Figs. l and 2; Fig. 4, a section in the line y, y, of Fig. 3.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

I construct the buckle of two bows B, B, and two pairs, or` sets,.of tongues b, b. Both pairs of tongues may be secured to a single central piece, A, to which the bows are hinged at the four corners a, a, a, ci, as shown in Figs. l and 2; or each pair, or set, of tongues, may have its separate roller, or axis, A, hinged respectively to the bows,

andconnected with each other, by links C, C, at the ends, as represented in Figs. 3 and 4. By thus making the buckle double, and jointed, it does not require to be sewed or otherwise permanently attached to the garment; but both ends are alike tentered by tongues respectively to both sides of the garment.` Hence, it is' obvious that the buckle may be removed at pleasure, and placed on another garment, when desired; so that a single buckle, or set of buckles, will be sufficient for the whole wardrobe of a person.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The double, jointed buckle, constructed substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

The above specification of my improved buckle signed 1856.

by me this AAth day of August,

WILLIAM SLADE.

Titnessesz` H. M. CAMPBELL, JOHN F. Lewis. 

